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Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO)

April 13, 2018 at 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

The Asian Studies Program at Kennesaw State University (KSU) presents the next Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO.)

 

The purposes of SAUPO include information exchange, personal network building, global visibility, and investment to/from Asia. It is anticipated that over 400 business leaders, diplomats, non-profit activists, scholars, investors, and government officials from Asia, USA and other parts of the world will attend SAUPO in Atlanta. There will be a delegation of Chinese investors coming, seeking for projects to invest.

2018 SAUPO-Atlanta Confirmed Speakers include:

o Ken Harmon, Interim President, Kennesaw State University

o John Merrill, Secretary of State, Alabama, USA

o Young-jun Kim, Consul General of Korea in Atlanta

o Yutaka Nakamura Deputy Consul General of Japan In Atlanta

o Zhencheng Zhou, Consul, Director of Commerce, Consulate General of China in Houston

o Mark Viken, VP of Marketing, Hisense

o Dan Forsman, President & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

o Michael Sullivan, Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson

o Lucy Lu, Global Managing Partner, Lucy Lu & Associates

o Nagendra Roy, Senior Director -IT, Aptude, Inc.

o Donald Morrissey, Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.

o Martin Judge Jr., Chairman, China Arena Football League (CAFL)

o Glad Cheng, Chairman, China Window Group

o Jessica Cork, VP, Public Relations, YKK Corporation of America

o Frank Su, President, Kids’R’Kids China

o Wade Edwards, Int’l Marketing Director, Habitat for Humanity International

o Huandong Gao, Sr. Director of Growth, Walmart Headquarters

o Stephen Haverfield, Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Alumni Association

o Yoshi Domoto, Executive Director, Japan-America Society of Georgia

o Wendy Lu, Tax Senior Manager, Aprio

o Landon Van Dyke, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State

o Brendan Tate, U.S. Department of the Interior

o Brad Taylor, VP, The Coca-Cola Company

o Shiyu Wang, Chairman, Fargo Fortune Investment Group (China)

o Stan Shengqi Wang, Managing Partner, Tenfunder Investment Fund (China)

o Qixin Zhang, Chairman, Phoenix City Investment Fund; CPPCC Member (China)

o Michael Guo, Sr. Director of Software Engineering, LexisNexis

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